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Topic: All commands are Queued! (Read 5385 times)

Right! I'm new at this. I may sound like an idiot. You Have Been Warned.

I'm using the Windows version of the Discworld mudlib available on this site, on a machine running Windows XP.

I got the mudlib installed (I believe) properly according to the directions in c:\dw\INSTALL-windows.txt.

The mud.bat file runs, and I can connect to my test MUD (via MUSHclient, Drakkos told me that I could connect via a MUD client) with no apparent problems.

I can even create a new character, who is (as far as I can tell) a Trustee, and a guest character, who is (as far as I can tell) Notte A Trustee.

The problem is that whenever I use my Trustee to issue any input to the MUD- from commands like "save" or "update file\path\here to nonsense like "wharrgarbl"- the command is queued, and never executes (as far as I can see).

Oddly, I can use my Notte a Trustee character to issue commands- I receive messages like "You are in limbo, noone can hear you," but the command DOES work.

What is the proper syntax to use under Windows? I believe the problem to be (at least partially) that I am trying to use the UNIX commands in Drakkos' manuals, which are apparently and unsurprisingly incompatible with the Windows version.

Specifically, I would like to know the commands to save a character, and to update a file to the test MUD. I may be able to work out at least some things out on my own from there.

It would appear that commands queue endlessly as described on BOTH Trustee and Normal characters, but not Guest characters.

Guest characters can do some things, like look (You are in limbo... sorry you can't look at anything), pout (You pout. <BR>) and talk (You are in limbo, noone can hear you. <BR> A runtime error occurred. <BR> Please use the "bug" command to report it, describing what you tried to do when it happened. <BR>).

Guest characters suffer from the Queue O' Doom (TM) when they try to certain other things like save (Queued command: save<BR>>).

The <BR>'s appear in the MUD output, and are not a failed attempt to create HTML breaks in this post.